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Iain Laws, director at reward consultancy Enrich, says: "In the recession of the early 1990s employee benefits were sacrificed for survival among small businesses. Medium and larger enterprises focused on containing costs...

With companies feeling the pain in 2009, delegates at the Group Risk Adviser Forum saw three areas where work needs to be done to bolster the sector – sensible trimming and realignment...

The Day Care Trust's Childcare costs survey 2008 says that parents now pay an average of £7,000 to £8,000 for a full-time nursery place for a child aged under two - 5...

Conversely it could be argued that in a tougher labour market, offering something that can keep employees loyal, engaged and productive and which at the same time allows employers better manage their...

You could say the employee benefit equivalent of the Holy Grail is the employer client yet to provide any benefits, but who is keen to offer something to staff. But such clients...

It's probably fairly safe to assume that Oscar Wilde was not thinking of the relationship between HR and employee benefit advisers when he uttered the immortal lines, "the salesman knows nothing of...

There is no denying the fact that the majority of us are feeling the effects of the credit crunch and one of the best loved ways to help staff with families is...

The introduction of almost any piece of employment legislation will inevitably have more far-reaching effects for employers than originally intended. The latest plans for pensions reform, which will see the introduction of...

As headlines decry an apparent epidemic of obesity, binge-drinking and incapacity benefit junkies, corporate advisers have an ever-expanding choice of health and wellbeing benefits to sell to clients worried about their workers'...

The concept of an employee share plan is actually a very simple one. Give your staff the chance to own a slice of the company they work for, and they will work...